A "Leap" Into The Future of Piano Performance

Leap Motion.

For those of you who don't know what Leap Motion is, please check out their site HERE.

Recently I was accepted to be a developer for Leap Motion. The project I chose as my "Dev Project" was that of a virtual piano on which one can play and enter in MIDI information to a music program. This was all fine and dandy, but it didn't register until today just what this would mean.

My Last Piano Song, "Farewell"

My last song on the piano, as requested. This one has words on screen as the music plays though, so don't start it then switch tabs. :)

Stupid Dog

Welcome to the bitter-cold frosty landscape of Utah.

10 Reasons I Hate Facebook

Reason One: Those stupid captioned pictures that say things like, "If you don't like this then you are a horrible person", or "'Like' If You Support Cancer Treatment Development". Really, never expect me to like something that SAYS for me to like. EVER. Or forward email's to me that tell about the same thing.

Into The Fog [Original]

Hey guys, remember those 'themes' I kept putting up? Well I finally gave up on that melody and completely rewrote from scratch. This is the final(?) theme for the video game, "The Fog". I'll put up a link to the game as soon as we re-figure our website.

Enjoy and critique,
-AdmiralCubie

The Imagined Life

My life is by no means what one might consider ‘exciting’. Sometimes I’ll pretend it is- running across a busy street to make it look like I have something important to do, telling myself that something probably hangs by a thread and the only way for me to get there in time is to do irrationally stupid things. Of course- I guess this is true to a point, consider all the things we’ve missed in life simply by being there thirty seconds too late. I know that personally, I’ve missed plenty due to this unfortunate phenomenon. That last donut, held in reserve after an arduous meeting, only to be taken as seconds by someone else while I was too busy pretending I had a good reason for having my backpack with me.

My Last Piano Performance - Why I Do What I Do

This is it. The culmination of years of practice and composition coming together to this one event.

Tonight, in about four hours, is my last piano performance ever. The reasons for this are because I don't really have anywhere else to perform except at my mother's bi-annual performance for beginning piano students. I'm not really one of her students, nor am I a beginning musician, but I consider myself lucky nonetheless to have a place to let out my musical talent. By the time her next 'recital' comes around I'll be busy trying to graduate, getting ready for college, and possibly have no use of my right wrist due to probable upcoming surgery to deal with my carpal tunnel (or "musicians wrist" as I so 'fondly' call it).

Needless to say, I'm somewhat nervous. Dropping an instrument feels like losing an old friend, and a central part of my life. I really hope that after surgery I can even recover quickly enough to continue guitar, which doesn't require as much wrist movement. (Note that just because many guitarists move their strumming wrist a lot when playing, doesn't mean that the movement is actually necessary, and I'm not getting surgery in my left wrist after all. :P)

In memorial of the piano I've played for years, here's a timeline; complete with the music I played and my reason for playing, even though I've only had one place to play and no real support due to my lack of teaching (note that while my parents have encouraged my learning to play the piano, it was always more of 'courtesy encouragement' because they wanted to support my interests).